Euclid's Construction of a Regular Dodecahedron (XIII.17)
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Let 
and 
be the centers of the two adjacent cube faces 
and 
with common side 
, and let 
, 
, 
, and 
be the midpoints of 
, , 
, and 
.
Contributed by: Milana Dabic (March 2011)
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